Getting high quality black and white conversions of color photos usually means a trip to the Lab color mode or using the Channel Mixer, both of which take time. Here's an easy way to still get high quality results even when you don't have time to spare!

Learn how to easily achieve professional quality black and white conversions of your photos with the "Lab" color mode and Channels, and finish it off with a couple of layer blend modes.

It seems like no matter what you want to do in Photoshop, there's several ways to accomplish it, and converting color photographs into black and white is no exception. From quick and dirty to professional techniques, you'll find several paths to black and white here.

Photoshop offers lots of options for converting photos from color to black and white.

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Learn how to use Photoshop CS3's new Zoomify Export feature to make high quality, high resolution images that zoom and pan with ease on your website for fast interactive viewing.

Learn how to quickly and easily create a pop art-style effect from any photo using the Lab color mode in Photoshop.

Get great results when sharpening images without fumbling around with confusing options by using Photoshop's High Pass filter and your choice of layer blend modes.

Have your background black and white and your main model colored.

Who knows where the new style of a single-color (usually red) contrasted with black and white came from? Regardless, Brian Harber shows us in this video the various methods of capturing that vibrant red or other color while desaturating the rest.

- Turn your image to greyscale, then use some tools to change certain bits back to colour!

This tutorial will not only show you various Photoshop techniques for converting color images into black and white images, but also explain the advantages and disadvantages for each technique.

Turn a photo to a black and white one while still keeping certaining aspects of the photo colored.

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Use this tutorial to learn a quick and effective way of achieving a quality black and white conversion of a color photograph. This method will convert the photo without losing contrast, so it will look as if you shot on black and white film to begin

Learn how to convert color photos to black and white while still leaving trace amounts of color showing.

Change your black and white photos to color.

Learn a few ways to convert your color photos to black and white.

Learn to convert a black and white picture to color in two ways.

In this tutorial you'll learn how to colorize a black & white photograph.